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Issue No.5 Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Today’s - Schedule10.00 Mixed Pairs Semi-final A&B (R3)

10.30 Mixed Teams Final (R1)

12.00 Mixed Pairs Semi-final A&B (R4)






There is an old Russian proverb that says, ‘It is better to travel hope-fully than to arrive’. That will come true for one of the finalists intoday’s Mixed Teams, as Zimmermann faces Vriend in whatpromises to be an exciting match. The losing semifinalists, Badger andMahaffey receive the bronze medals.

Mixed Pairs FinalsPlayers eliminated from semifinals A & B intending to play in Final B

must register at least half an hour before the start of play. 21-27 Pairs will qualify from semifinal A to Final A and they will be

joined by 3 Pairs from semifinal B.Maurizio Di Sacco - Championship Manager

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5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Poznan, Poland

MIXED TEAMS

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MAHAFFEY 46 46 92HARDING 18 8 26GREEN EYES 17 23 40VRIEND 45 19 64BADGER 34 23 57RUSSIA 33 18 51WILD GRIFFINS 37 8 45ZIMMERMANN 32 30 62

ROUND OF 8

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MAHAFFEY 8 5 13VRIEND 9 26 35

ZIMMERMANN 8 39 47BADGER 10 18 28

ROUND OF 4

The first hand in yesterday’s Bulletin referred to the play-er holding:

[ 9 8 6 4 3 2] 7 4{ K Q 8 7 4} –

At love all RHO opens a two-suited Two Hearts, raised toFour by LHO and Passed back to you. Do you bid? Muchsympathy was expressed for the choice of Four Spades but,alas, LHO held both black suits and the opener had five di-amonds, so the outcome was -1100.For those who had read the Bulletin at breakfast they may

have had a feeling of foreboding when the second board ofplay in the Mixed Teams quarterfinal presented West withthis decision:

You hold [ –] J 6 { K 6 4 3 2 } 10 9 8 6 4 3 At favourable vulnerability partner opens One Heart and

then the auction goes Two Spades from South on your rightraised to Four by North and passed back to you. Do youact? Undaunted, Graham Osborne of Badger in the matchwith Russia re-entered with Four Notrumps. Osborne must have felt things were going badly when

North doubled and partner selected Five Hearts whichwas also doubled. Your dummy does not look too useful.However this was the full deal:

Board 2. Dealer East. N/S Vul.

[ K 5 2] A 9 3{ A Q 9 8} J 5 2

[ – [ A J 10] J 6 ] K Q 10 8 7 5 2{ K 6 4 3 2 { 7 5} 10 9 8 6 4 3 } A

[ Q 9 8 7 6 4 3] 4{ J 10} K Q 7

As you can see Four Spades is cold for North-South andworth 620 but both tables reached Five Hearts doubled. On a trump lead Five Hearts doubled goes for 500 but at

both tables a spade lead allowed declarer to escape for onedown. The re-entry by Osborne achieved a flat board and amajor improvement on allowing them to rest in Four Spades.Such decisions proved crucial in a match that was close fromstart to finish, with Badger emerging the victor by 4 IMPs.

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Did you read the Bulletin at breakfast?by Patrick Jourdain (Wales)

Graham Osborne, England

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5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS17 June - 2 July 2011

Although these days I rarely have time to turn a card inanger (a considerable relief to many) it’s always interestingto follow the fortunes of former partners and teammates.Austria’s Sascha Wernle and Jovi Smederevac have the du-bious distinction of falling into both categories, so Iwatched the first half of their team’s match against BepVriend’s powerful squad. Only three deals were significant:


[ –] A 8 5{ K J 10 9 5} A Q 9 8 2

[ J 9 4 3 2 [ A Q 10 8 6 5] Q 10 6 2 ] –{ Q 8 { A 7 3 2} J 7 } 6 5 3

[ K 7] K J 9 7 4 3{ 6 4} K 10 4

Open RoomWest North East South

Bakkeren Wernle Arnolds Smederevac4[ Pass

Pass Dbl Pass 5]5[ Pass Pass Dbl

All Pass

Four Spades would not be everyone’s choice and whenSouth bid Five Hearts, West had an awkward decision tomake. The combination of a spade lead and the trump po-sition mean that ten tricks is the limit in hearts. Five Spadeshad four obvious losers, and the defenders made no mis-take, +300.

Closed RoomWest North East SouthForge Maas Ventos Vriend

1[ 2]4[ 6] All Pass

Declarer ruffed the spade lead in dummy and cashed theace of hearts. She came to hand with a club, ruffed a spadeand played clubs, emerging with ten tricks, -200 and 11 IMPs.

Board 8. Dealer West. None Vul.

[ A 10] A Q J 6 4 3 2{ 8} 8 5 3

[ 9 8 4 [ K 7 5 3] 9 7 ] 5{ Q 10 9 3 { A K 2} A 10 7 2 } K Q J 9 6

[ Q J 6 2] K 10 8{ J 7 6 5 4} 4


Bakkeren Wernle Arnolds SmederevacPass 1] Dbl 1[Pass 4] All Pass

If you follow the style where a double of One Spadewould show five spades (the idea being to expose a psych)then you are not too well placed on the West hand, yourchoice being to pass, as West did here, or bid a minor andwith Five Clubs going only one down it happens to workwell to bid Clubs.East cashed the ace of diamonds and switched to her

trump but declarer simply won and played a spade to theten. East could win, but the was only one more trick for thedefence, +420.

Closed RoomWest North East SouthForge Maas Ventos VriendPass 1] Dbl 2]Dbl* 4] Dbl All Pass

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Vriend v Khandelwal Round of 16 by Mark Horton

Bep Vriend, Netherlands

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East knew partner held fewer than four spades and somevalues — is that enough to bid prefer Five Clubs to double?The jury is still out on that one, but +590 gave Vriend 5 IMPs.

Board 11. Dealer South. None Vul.

[ A 6] A J 9 6{ K Q J 4 2} 7 3

[ Q 9 8 5 [ 10 3] 8 3 2 ] K Q 10 7 4{ 5 { A 9 8} K J 9 6 4 } 10 8 5

[ K J 7 4 2] 5{ 10 7 6 3} A Q 2


Bakkeren Wernle Arnolds SmederevacPass

Pass 1NT Pass 2]*Pass 2[ Pass 3NT

All Pass

The textbooks tell you that 5-4-2-2 hands are not suitablefor 1NT and here North eventually paid a heavy price formissing the nine card fit in diamonds. East led the queen of hearts and declarer won and played

the king of diamonds. East won and switched to the eightof clubs, covered by the queen and king. West played aheart for the nine and ten and East switched to the five ofclubs. Declarer took the ace and cashed his diamonds. Re-markably, West elected to discard two spades! Now de-clarer could cash the top spades for eleven tricks, but un-sure of the club position and not unreasonably finding itimpossible to believe that West would hand him the con-tract on a plate he cashed the ace of spades and then fi-nessed to go two down, -100.

Closed RoomWest North East SouthForge Maas Ventos Vriend

2[*Pass 2NT* Pass 3{Pass 5{ All Pass

When North discovered his partner’s second suit was di-amonds he stood not upon the order of his going but wentat once to the excellent game. West made the unfortunatelead of a club and declarer was under no pressure at all.Absent a black suit lead declarer is by no means certain to

make Five Diamonds. Indeed, even with all the hands on viewthe winning lines on a red suit lead are not easy to see (a stripsqueeze on West after a heart lead is one — the other after adiamond lead and two rounds of trumps I leave you to workout). +400 gave Vriend 11 IMPs and they led 22-12 at the half.

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It’s your bulletin

When you are playing in a bridge tournament that lastsfor a couple of weeks you can easily loose touch withwhat is going on in the rest of the world. Of course itis possible to get a newspaper (albeit a day late) and theInternet is perhaps the greatest innovation of moderntimes after the computer.If you switch on the TV in your hotel room you are al-

most certain to find a news channel that is running 24hours a day in a language you can understand.But, my question is what exactly do you want to know

while you are away from home? For example, are you asports fan? (I can tell you that Roger Federer won his open-ing match at Wimbledon.) Perhaps you are worriedabout the economy? (Hopes that the Greek debt crisiscould be resolved coupled with some strong company state-ments had the top share indices posting big gains by theclose of play yesterday.) Perhaps you are interested incurrent affairs? (The BBC listed Russia crash may be piloterror, UK man held over website hacks, Deadly bombings hitcentral Iraq and Ice mission produces first map, amongsttheir top stories.)Or, do you think that these things recede into the

background while you are playing and that what youwant to see in the Bulletin is what is going on in thetournament?In 2006 I was in Turin for the Chess Olympiad. Re-

markably the Daily Bulletin always contained only onegame each day (annotated by a leading grandmaster).Can you imagine if we presented a Bulletin with onlyone deal?So, gentle reader, if you can find a few moments from

your crowded day, come and tell us what you would liketo see in these pages. As Winston Churchill famouslysaid, ‘Give us the tools and we will finish the job.’

The Championships are honoured by the presence ofthe President of the World Bridge Federation, GianarrigoRona who arrived in Poznan yesterday.

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A couple of deals from the second half of the MixedTeams round of 32, grabbed my attention: here is yourfirst chance to win or lose a match. This was from Ca-landra-Pony with Agustin Madala declarer.

Board 16. Dealer West. E/W Vul.

[ Q 2] A 9 4 3{ K 9 8 7 6 4} 4

[ K J 9 8 5 3 [ 6] 6 5 ] Q J 8 7{ Q 3 { J 5 2} J 7 6 } K 10 9 8 3

[ A 10 7 4] K 10 2{ A 10} A Q 5 2

West North East SouthPass 1{ Pass 1[Pass 2{ Pass 4NTPass 5] Pass 6{

All Pass

After an auction replete with overbids/misunderstandings(Rimstedt meant 4NT as quantitative, Madala read it askeycard) Madala arrived in a gruesome 6{ contract, only tobe rescued by East’s unfortunate lead of the ]Q — and yeswe’ve all led worse and had better results.

Madala in essence played simply for the hearts and clubsto behave perfectly by drawing trumps, and was defeateddespite the fortunate lies of the minors. Even though thecontract can be defeated, can you see how he could haveleft himself with a much better chance to succeed?

The answer is to win the heart in hand and finesse theclub then play three rounds of diamonds (purists will notethat at double-dummy West must unblock the {Q underthe {A — but our margin is not large enough to publish thedetails of why that should be). This is the ending:

[ Q 2] 9 4 3{ 8 7 6} –

[ K J 9 8 5 [ 6] 6 ] J 8 7{ – { –} J 7 } K 10 9 3

[ A 10 7] K 10{ –} A 5 2

If (as you or I might do) West has discarded an encourag-ing spade, then it might require superhuman discretion forEast to avoid exiting in that suit. If she does, declarer winsboth black aces (pitching a spade), ruffs a spade to handthen settles in to run the trumps. In the four-card endingEast will want to keep two clubs and three hearts and thelaws require her to let something go. If she pitches a clubdeclarer finesses in hearts to ruff out the clubs and dummyis good. If a heart, declarer finesses in hearts and cashes the]K and his hand is good.

Once the defender has seen the danger, he must breakup the position by playing a second heart. That leavesdummy short of one critical entry for the ruffing-squeezeto work.

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A study in scarlet (or ‘blood all over the carpet’)by Barry Rigal

Agustin Madala, Italy

Duplimate DiscountsThe Duplimate dealing machines used at these cham-

pionships will be sold at the end of the event with a 20%discount. Visit the Jannersten Bookshop on the firstfloor.

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Deal 22. Dealer East. E/W Vul.

[ 9] K Q 9{ A J 10 8 7 3} J 7 4

[ K Q 6 2 [ J 10 5 3] 10 8 2 ] A 7 5 4 3{ K Q 6 { 5 4} 10 9 6 } K 2

[ A 8 7 4] J 6{ 9 2} A Q 8 5 3

The field in general managed to avoid the uninspiringgame of 3NT (5{ and 5} are little better) but Alfredo Ver-sace played 3NT as North on the lead of the unbid suit, aheart. He put up the jack, which held of course, and playeda low diamond. When West split his honours, how shouldhe have continued?

At the table, Versace in essence played for a defensiveerror by winning and continuing the attack on diamonds.West won and shifted to a heart, and East ducked to retainthe defensive communications. That allowed Versace tocash out nine tricks without needing a finesse. Of coursethe defenders could have done better; but should Versacehave played for his legitimate chances in diamonds by duck-ing the first one?

And finally, had West ducked the first diamond, cutting de-clarer’s communications, declarer could have shifted his at-tention to clubs at trick three. The extremely favourable liein that suit would have led to nine tricks without needinganything further.

In one of the other close matches Badger-Connector, theyoung Polish team Connector picked up a game swing byleading a spade against North’s 3NT to defeat it by twotricks, while making overtricks in the same contract on aheart lead.

With four deals to go Connector still led Badger by asmall margin, as did Balti over Lavazza. Deal 25 had the po-tential to swing this (and indeed many other) matches.

Deal 25. Dealer North.. E/W Vul.

[ A Q 8] 10{ J 10 9 6 4} 8 7 5 3

[ K J 9 7 6 5 4 [ 10] A K 8 4 3 ] Q J 9{ – { A K Q 8} 6 } A K Q J 2

[ 3 2] 7 6 5 2{ 7 5 3 2} 10 9 4

Of the 32 tables in play seven bravely bid all the way togame, while three pairs went minus in a grand slam. Ad-ditionally, for Team Pony against Calabra, Nehmert wentdown in 7] and this virtually levelled that match. Butyou can imagine her irritation at playing the grand slamfrom East on a club lead. Admittedly, a spade lead mighthave sunk the Grand Slam out of hand while a red-suitlead lets it through trivially, but after the club lead, tak-ing out the only entry to the strong hand, E/W musthave felt extremely aggravated to run into the 4-1 trumpbreak which was what was required to prevent her frombringing home 13 tricks!). Two went down in 6[, leaving20 tables to reach contracts of more or less technicalmerit. Ten played 6], and even on the troublesome clublead — found only by Hugh McGann - 12 tricks weretaken by Patrick Sussel, while all the other tables col-lected 1460.

Three other tables played 6} while another played 6}x,all of them making in comfort. Six tables played 6NT,(Smederevac-Wernle and Vecchiato-Engel achieving thecoup of making West declarer) and where this contractwas not doubled it made in comfort. Grahame Osborneand Andreas Babsch both found the double of 6NT fromthe East seat, and cashed out when their partners led aspade; Alex Dubinin also played 6NT doubled…but he re-ceived a club lead and scored up 1880.

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The lead for Badger against Connector lasted just onedeal.

Deal 26. Dealer East.Both Vul.

[ K 5] Q 9 3{ 9 7 5 2} A 10 3 2

[ J 6 4 [ Q 3 2] K 10 ] A 4{ 8 6 4 3 { A K J 10} K J 9 7 } Q 6 5 4

[ A 10 9 8 7] J 8 7 6 5 2{ Q} 8

Nine of the 32 tables were allowed to play in 3NT fromthe East seat and handled the board carefully by cashingone top diamond (getting the good news) and then nego-tiating clubs to best effect. Seven tables went down in 3NT— a couple of tables having been doubled there, and takingan early diamond finesse to lose 1100 in the process. ForConnector Sakowska-Butryn racked up 600 at one tablewhile Serek-Kazmucha as N/S bid to 4] — undoubled! - andscored 620; impressive indeed and 15 IMPs to give themback a 62-57 lead with one board to go. In Calandra-Pony,Calandra went down in 3NT but made a heart partscorein the other room, so that with one deal to go the lead forPony was down to 1 IMP.

Meanwhile, Lavazza had appeared to have no chance torecover from 5 IMPs down with two deals to go, on whatappeared to be two quiet games…but the commentatorshad not allowed for Romanowska’s gallant attempt tosnatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Holding:

[ Q 7 4 3] J 8 5 4 3{ 4} A J 10

In fourth chair she heard the auction proceed with no-body vulnerable: Pass — Pass — 1{. She overcalled 1] and itwent double on her left, pass from partner 2] on her right,so she doubled to call for a non-heart lead. Since 1] wasgoing for 1100 or 1400, and 2]xx was going to make 1240or 1440 you might argue with her choices of action. All waswell however when Cuzzi-Versace declined to take themoney on either occasion and simply collected 430 in 3NT.Just for the record Cuzzi held a maximum pass with a 4-5-2-2 pattern and five semi-solid hearts. Balti led by 5 IMPswith one board to go. A dull 3NT you might think — but notso…

Deal 28. Dealer West. N/S Vul.

[ Q 4] A 9 6{ A K 7 5 4} A J 8

[ J 9 6 [ K 10 8] J 8 ] K 7 4 3{ J 9 3 2 { 10 6} K 9 5 2 } 10 7 6 4

[ A 7 5 3 2] Q 10 5 2{ Q 8} Q 3

The three matches we are following all played in 3NT —Osborne for team Badger declaring it from North on a lowheart lead (after South had shown her spades but not herhearts) and collected 630. In the other room South had de-scribed her hand more precisely so Leslie led a club to thequeen, king and ace. Now instead of relying solely on thediamonds, declarer does best to go after hearts; but whatis the best line in hearts, in abstract? Suitplay (devised byJeroen Warmerdam) tells us that low to the ten is frac-tionally better than low to the nine — something to do withwhich 4-2 breaks onside you can negotiate. When declarerplayed the objectively best line (clearly best because of theentry position to dummy) the cards did not co-operateand the defenders set up clubs. The bad diamond breakdoomed the game. That meant 12 IMPs and a 69-62 win forBadger.

In Pony-Calandra both rooms played 3NT — and bothEasts led hearts, allowing declarer time to establish hearts,then diamonds, and come to ten tricks. Where Madala wasdeclarer he held himself to nine tricks in an attempt tomake 11 (a good view in a sense since he lost an IMP here,and the match by two IMPs — had he brought home thesecond overtrick, it would have taken the match to extratime).

Versace for team Lavazza collected 630 as well; butSarkanas for team Balti played 3NT on the lead of the clubseven. He had opened an artificial 1} and had rebid toshow 18-19 without three spades; when he ducked thesecond highest lead Bocchi as West put up the king (a playthat suggests he was playing his partner for }AJ87(x) or}A1087(x) — but that was highly unlikely if he had only adoubleton spade. In any event, from that point on declarerwas only playing for overtricks and emerged with 630 anda win by 5 IMPs.

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Appeals Committee:Jens Auken (Chairman, Denmark), Herman De Wael

(Scribe, Belgium), PO Sundelin (Sweden), Jan van Cleeff (theNetherlands)

Grattan Endicott sat in on the meeting in his capacity ofsecretary of the WBF Laws Committee

Mixed Pairs Qualifying Round 2

Board 11. Dealer North. None Vul.

[ 5 4 2] A K 10 2{ Q 4 3} 8 4 2

[ 10 [ A K Q 9 8 3] Q J 6 5 3 ] 4{ K 6 5 2 { J} A K Q } 9 7 6 5 3

[ J 7 6] 9 8 7{ A 10 9 8 7} J 10

West North East South1] Pass 1[ Pass2{ Pass 3} Pass

3NT Pass 4[ All Pass

Contract: Four Spades, played by East

Lead: }J

Play:West North East South}A }2 }3 }J}K }4 {J }10}Q }8 ]4 [6{5 ... {A

Result: 12 tricks

The Facts: East revoked twice, on the }K and }Q. After the {5,

North called the Director.

The Director: Ordered play to continue, saw that 12 tricks were made,

and applied a one-trick penalty.

Ruling: 11 tricks, NS -450

Relevant Laws: Law 64.A.2, 64.B.2, 64C

North/South appealed.

Present: All players except South

The Players: North believed that if play is stopped after the }Q is

played, equity dictates that 10 tricks be awarded.

West stated that North had waited 15 seconds after the{5, before calling the Director.

The Committee: Read the relevant laws:

Law 64A. Rectification following a RevokeWhen a revoke is established:(...)and the trick on which the revoke occurred was not won by the

offending player then, if the offending side won that or any sub-sequent trick, after play ends one trick is transferred to the non-offending side.

Law 64B. No RectificationThere is no rectification as in A following an established revoke:(...)2. if it is a subsequent revoke in the same suit by the same

player. Law 64C may apply. (...)

Law 64C. Director Responsible for EquityWhen, after any established revoke, including those not subject

to rectification, the Director deems that the non-offending sideis insufficiently compensated by this Law for the damagecaused, he shall assign an adjusted score.

The Committee also read an extract of the minutes ofthe WBF Laws Committee meeting of 10th October 2008:

Law 64C — If there are two revokes on the same board the eq-uity in the case of the second revoke is determined by referenceto the position after the first revoke.

It was clear that there had been two revokes, both estab-

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Appeal No. 4

England/Croatia vItaly/Monaco

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lished, and that the penalty after applying Laws 64A and64B amounted to 1 trick, subtracted from the 12 tricksthat had been made at the table.

There are several possible interpretations of Law 64C:

1) The normal result of the board is 11 tricks. This is eq-uitable.

2) After the second trick (but before the }Q is played),the normal result is 12 tricks, to which one penalty trick isapplied, so equity is 11 tricks.

3) After the }Q is played, to which East should followsuit, the normal result is 11 tricks (losing the ruff and aheart trick), with one penalty trick, so equity is 10 tricks.

A few further considerations were made:1) The first revoke is only established after the }Q is

played, so it does not really make sense to consider a po-sition before this. However, the WBFLC minute only appliesto the equity position, not the establishment or any othermatter.

2) The second revoke is established when the {5 isplayed. North would have made certain of receiving thescore of 10 tricks by calling attention to the revoke (whichhe is allowed to do) before this card is played.

3) The revoke penalties are soft in certain places (a sec-ond revoke by the same player in the same suit is not pe-nalised), and have turned softer in certain other placessince 2007 (fewer cases are penalised with two penaltytricks) and the aim of the laws is to rectify, not punish.

4) The question was put whether 11 was indeed the eq-uity position at the start of the board. Declarer might runthe [10.

In the end, the Committee found that this situation soclosely resembled the one described in Law 64B2, that11 tricks was deemed the equitable result as per Law64C.

The Committee’s decision:Director’s ruling upheld.

Deposit: Returned

Appeals Committee

As in all recent tournaments, allappeals are written up and will bepublished on the EBL website (fol-low links to departments — ap-peals). Some appeals of particularintrest may be published in theDaily Bulletin.

Championship Diary

Before you read thenext piece youshould be aware ofthe fact that one ofthe problems withadvancing years isthat your memorycan play tricks onyou. I tend to writethings down just tobe on the safe side.However, when I sawI had made a note

consisting of the letters ITP it took me some time towork out to what they related.

In the Mixed Teams round of 32, the team calledPony won the first half of its match by1 IMP. They re-peated this feat in the second half to win the matchby 2 IMPs. When they won the first half of theirround of 16 match by yes, you guessed it, just 1 IMPthey considered changing their name to One TrickPony.

We were considering the current physical capabilitiesof the Bulletin team when Tacchi mentioned that he isthe world record holder of the 2 meter dash — to thebar!(I asked if it should be for the 2 meter dash and

Herman said of, threatening to appeal if I changedit.).

When considering what to put in the diary, a vitalconsideration is that it fills an exact amount of space,making life easy for our layout Editor. I was consider-ing using a picture in today’s but when I mentionedthat it would make it exactly one column Tacchi insist-ed that I leave it out.

The new IMSA (Internation-al Mind Sports Association)website is now activated!You can visit it right nowand be informed on all theirlatest news and events! TheIMSA is a non-profit associ-ation that gathers togetherthe federations of Chess,Bridge, Go and Draughts.

The address is: www.imsaworld.com

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For this second half report, I chose three matches inwhich the leading team at halftime had a difficult time inholding on to their lead in the second half. These matchesare: Harding v. Balti, Wild Griffins v. Pony and Khandelwal v.Vriend.Balti led Harding by 20 IMPs at halftime. Six of them dis-

appeared on the first board when Balti overbid to a no-playspade game, and then came this:

Board 16. Dealer West. E/W Vul.

[ J 6 3 2] A Q 3 2{ 8 4} 9 4 3

[ A K 9 8 7 [ 10] K J ] 10 9 8 6 4{ 3 { K Q J 7} K Q 8 7 5 } A 10 6

[ Q 5 4] 7 5{ A 10 9 6 5 2} J 2

West North East SouthRubins McGann Romanovska Brown

1[ Pass 1NT Pass3} Pass 3] Pass4] Pass 6} All Pass

When clubs are trumps, Blackwood quite often is of littleuse and so it proved here as well. Had the 4]-bid beenshowing the ace, as it probably should, this might have beena different story. In real life, it was the umpteenth case of aslam missing two aces. Harding +200.

West North East SouthHanlon Sarkanas Harding Jankunaite

1[ Pass 1NT Pass3} Pass 3NT All Pass

No accidents at the other table. Nine tricks, Harding+600 and 13 IMPs more to come to within 1 IMP of theiropponents.

In the Khandelwal-Vriend match, we also had a swing butin different fashion.

West North East SouthBakkeren Wernle Arnolds Smederevac

1[ Pass 1NT Pass2} Pass 2] Pass4] All Pass

4] may well look like a rather ugly contract to you, dearreader, but due to the good spot cards it was completelyplayable. Vriend +620.

West North East SouthR Khandelwal Maas H Khandelwal Vriend

1[ Pass 1NT Pass2} Pass 2{ Dbl3} All Pass

Maybe, the double of 2{ scared East so much that sheelected to pass 3}. Maybe, West might have producedsome more noise as well. Anyway, a vulnerable gamemissed, +130 to Khandelwal but 10 IMPs to Vriend.

The mostly Irish team, Harding, even took the lead on thevery next board:

Board 17. Dealer North. None Vul.

[ K 8 5 2] 9 6 5{ K 10} K J 10 4

[ 3 [ A Q J 7] J 4 2 ] A 8 7 3{ A Q J 9 5 4 { 6 3 2} A 8 2 } 7 5

[ 10 9 6 4] K Q 10{ 8 7} Q 9 6 3


Pass Pass Pass2{ Pass 2NT Pass3{ All Pass

Opposite a passed hand, West could hardly imagine agame might be on for his side. Apart from that, his side wasnon vulnerable so it would not be expensive anyway. Hethus settled for a quiet partscore and scored +130 for histeam.


Pass 1NT Pass3NT All Pass

When East did open a weak NT, West took a direct shot

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at game. With the {K onside, there are nine top tricks, if it’soffside there are several extra chances, even more so if thedefence does not lead clubs. South led a spade so ninetricks were easy. Harding +400 and 7 IMPs to them to leadby 6. In the space of three boards, they had scored 26IMPs…

In the match between the Wild Griffins and Pony, the lat-ter had a half-time lead of 1 IMP. They had added 5 moreon the first board of the set and lost one overtrick on thenext. The Wild Griffins took over the lead on this one,however:

West North East SouthYuen S Orlov Pony T Dikhnova

Pass Pass Pass1{ Pass 1] Pass2{ Pass 3{ Pass3] Pass 3[ Pass4{ All Pass

This looks like a bidding uncertainty to me. If 3[ shows astopper, then why should West refrain from bidding 3NT?If it denies a stopper, the spade singleton looks extremelyuseful. So the Pony team missed a reasonable game and hadto be content with +130 only.

West North East SouthKhven Gotard Gulevich Eggeling

Pass 1} Pass2{ Pass 2NT Pass

3NT All Pass

The Polish style Club made life easy for EW from the mo-ment East found an opening bid.Ten tricks on a spade lead, Wild Griffins +430 and 7 more

IMPs. They led by 2.

The next board proved tricky for some of the players in-volved, both in bidding and play:


[ K 10 6 4 3] K 9 5{ Q J} 10 9 2

[ A J 8 2 [ Q 9 7] Q 10 6 3 2 ] A 8 4{ K 9 8 { A 10 4} 4 } A J 8 5

[ 5] J 7{ 7 6 5 3 2} K Q 7 6 3


1NT Pass2{ Pass 2] Pass2[ Pass 4] All Pass

The transfer had made East the declarer, so South ledher spade and got an immediate ruff when dummyducked. After this, declarer made the rest of the playlook ridiculously easy. South exited with a discard toNorth’s Jack and East’s ace, cashed the ]A noting the fallof the jack and proceeded to unblock the [Q, intendingto throw her diamond loser on the spades and ruffingthe last diamond before reverting to trumps. This goodplan was made irrelevant, as the {Q made her welcomeappearance when she crossed to the {K. Ten tricks, Balti+420.


1} Pass1{ Pass 1] Pass1[ Pass 1NT Pass2} All Pass

In the Closed Room, the Norwegian-Irish combinationhad a terrible misunderstanding about the relay (?) mean-ing of 2}. 1{ had shown hearts but the unwanted final con-tract went two off, +100 to the Balti who thus regained thelead by 5 IMPs.

In the Khandelwal-Vriend match, it turned out that mak-ing 4] is not that easy on a different defence:

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1NT Pass2{ Pass 2] Pass2[ Pass 3] Pass4] All Pass

Again with East the declarer, South led the }K. Declarerwon the ace and played two rounds of trumps, North win-ning the king and…simply returning the }9 for the jack,queen and a ruff in dummy. The last trump was drawn andnow declarer had to take a view in spades. Low to thequeen and if this loses to the king, playing the suit from thetop is probably a good enough plan. But as you can see,once you started by playing low to the queen, you have twolosers in the suit. When North got the lead in spades thefirst time, he made the same cunning return of the {J. De-clarer could hardly avoid falling into this trap, in view of theinformation available at this point about the NS hands, soshe won the ace and finessed the queen on the way back.She thus lost a diamond, two spades and a trump for downone, +50 to Khandelwal.


1NT Pass2} Pass 2{ Pass

3NT All Pass

When South led a low club, declarer had no further prob-lems after winning the jack and playing ]A and another.Khandelwal +430 and 10 IMPs back to trail by 7.

A few boards later, the Harding team stole 3NT at onetable:

Board 20. Dealer West. All Vul.

[ 9 6 5] Q 9 7 4 3{ K 9 6} 6 2

[ 7 4 3 [ A K] A K 5 ] J 10 8 6{ 10 3 2 { 7 4} A K 10 4 } Q J 8 7 5

[ Q J 10 8 2] 2{ A Q J 8 5} 9 3

West North East SouthRubins McGann Romanovska Brown1NT Pass 2} 2{Pass Pass 3} Pass3{ Dbl Redbl Pass4} All Pass

With the hearts 5-1 and the queen behind the ]AK, nogame was on, so the Balti team had quite correctly stayedout of it after discovering that the diamond stopper wasmissing. Well done, just made, Balti +130.

West North East SouthHanlon Sarkanas Harding Jankunaite1NT Pass 2} Pass2{ Pass 3NT All Pass

When South did not overcall after the weak NT and Stay-man, North could never find the killing diamond lead. Tentricks, Harding +630 and 11 IMPs more to them.

In the Khandelwal-Vriend match, Jovanka Smederevac hada second arrow on her bow:


1} Pass 1] 1[Dbl Pass 3NT All Pass

One Club was 2+ and the double showed three hearts.South led from her second suit, the {Q in fact, and the de-fenders cashed the first five tricks. Khandelwal +100.

In the Closed Room, Bep Vriend stuck to her most solidsuit:


1} Pass 1{ 1[Dbl Pass 2NT Pass3NT All Pass

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1{ showed hearts and the double, again, was support. Southled the [Q and declarer quickly claimed ten tricks. Khandelw-al +630 and 12 IMPs back to them, to take over the lead by 4.

They handed back those IMPs on the next board, however:

Board 21. Dealer North. N/S Vul.

[ 9 7 6] A 7 3{ A J 9} A J 9 2

[ Q 10 8 3 2 [ A K 5 4] 5 ] K Q J 10 6{ 7 4 2 { K 8 6} 8 7 6 3 } 5

[ J] 9 8 4 2{ Q 10 5 3} K Q 10 4


1NT Dbl Pass2[ Pass 4[ Dbl

All Pass

After the weak NT and the natural double, the Dutch hadno trouble in reaching game. South doubled only to findout there was no winning defence any more when Northled a trump. Vriend +590.


1} Dbl 1]1[ Dbl 2[ All Pass

Well, 2[ by East clearly did not send over the message toWest. Khandelwal +170 for a loss of 9 IMPs. They were 5down again…

In the Wild Griffins-Pony match, they showed us how tobeat 4[:

West North East SouthYuen S Orlov Pony T Dikhnova

1NT 2} Pass2[ Pass 4[ All Pass

After the weak NT and the Landy overcall, EW reached 4[quite easily and North led a trump. Curtains. Pony +420.

In the Closed Room, EW also reached 4[ but Thomas Go-tard, looking at three aces, made the more enterprising leadof the }A. This proved very effective as it enabled him tocontinue the good work by shifting to a diamond. Now,there was no longer a parking place for declarer’s second

losing diamond so the contract had to go one off. Pony awell-deserved +50 and 10 IMPs back to regain the lead by 8.

The Wild Griffins levelled the match again when South forthe Pony team found an unlucky lead against a thin slam,not bid in the Open Room:


[ 9 6] K 9 5{ Q 9 6} Q J 10 7 6

[ 8 2 [ A Q 10 5] J 6 4 2 ] A Q 10 3{ A J 5 3 2 { K 10 7 4} A 8 } 3

[ K J 7 4 3] 8 7{ 8} K 9 5 4 2

West North East SouthYuen S Orlov Pony T DikhnovaPass Pass 1{ 2[Dbl Pass 4] All Pass

Twelve tricks on a diamond lead, Pony +480.

West North East SouthKhven Gotard Gulevich Eggeling

1{ Pass 1] Pass2] Pass 4} Pass4{ Pass 4NT Pass5] Pass 6] All Pass

Cuebids at the four-level and RKC saw EW reach a verythin slam against which South led her singleton diamond,thus picking up the suit for EW. When hearts were 3-2 withthe king onside, losing the spade finesse did not matter anymore. Wild Griffins +980 and 11 IMPs back. A close finishwas indeed in sight, in which the Griffins just had the edgeand thus made it into the last eight.

The penultimate board of the set settled the issues inboth the other matches. To slam or not to slam, that wasthe question.

In fact, played by East the slam is not all that bad as Southcannot profitably lead a pointed suit. The only thing declar-er has to do, is to draw trumps finessing the king success-fully and then guess how to play which of the pointed suits.If he guesses the king that is actually held by North, he ishome immediately but the presence of the {10 offers anextra chance of (mis)guessing diamonds. Running the {10is a winning move, as is presenting the {Q from East.

Let’s see what actually happened in our two remainingmatches.

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Board 27. Dealer South. None Vul.

[ 9 6 5 2] –{ J 8 6 2} J 10 9 8 7

[ A 7 [ Q 8 4] A J 10 6 3 2 ] Q 7 5 4{ A 10 { Q 9 3} K 6 5 } A Q 4

[ K J 10 3] K 9 8{ K 7 5 4} 3 2


Pass1} Pass 1[ Pass2] Pass 3] Pass3[ Pass 3NT Pass4} Pass 4] All Pass

For the Baltis, nothing very much happened, as you can see.Eleven tricks when declarer refrained from the heart finessebut played safe instead, after receiving a diamond lead toqueen, king and ace. When the trumps broke 3-0, tricks werein some jeopardy again but all was well when the {9 sur-vived the third round of the suit. Balti +450.


Pass1] Pass 3} Pass3[ Pass 4} Pass

4NT Pass 5{ Pass6] All Pass

3} showed a good raise, so West went straight to slamafter hearing about the one keycard only.North had an automatic club lead, so declarer won, drew

trumps and played {A, {10 running it when North playedlow. Harding +980 and 11 IMPs to them to go into the leadby 9 with one to play. They added another 5 IMPs on thatlast board to win comfortably in the end by 14.

With two boards to play, Khandelwal were leading by 4but their lead did not survive this board either:


Pass1] Pass 2NT Pass3} Pass 3NT Pass4} Pass 4] All Pass

When Arnolds could not produce a cuebid over 4},Bakkeren could hardly make any further move. Vriend +450when Bakkeren played trumps from the top but later

guessed correctly in diamonds.


Pass1] Pass 3{ Pass

4NT Pass 5{ Pass6] All Pass

When the Khandelwals reached slam, the outcome ofthe match was in the captain’s hands. He too got a clublead but then fell from grace by going up with the trumpace when South did not cover dummy’s queen. To add in-sult to injury, South then ruffed the third round of clubsand cashed the ]K as the setting trick before exiting indiamonds. This brought declarer an extra trick but therestill was no way to get rid of the spade loser: down two,100 and 11 IMPs to Vriend who thus regained the lead by7. This also proved to be their winning margin when thelast board was a push.

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As the report about the Mahaffey- Harding quarterfinalwill appear in tomorrow’s Bulletin, I can, in a way, restrictmyself to having a look at what happened in the otherthree matches. It turned out that, on a few boards, therewere all sorts of things going on at the various tables in-volved. Here is a survey.

Board 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul.

[ A 6 4] 10 8{ J 10 6 2} K Q 5 3

[ J 9 8 3 2 [ K Q 10 5] J 9 7 ] K Q 4{ Q 9 4 { A 8} 9 6 } A J 8 7

[ 7] A 6 5 3 2{ K 7 5 3} 10 4 2

First blood in the Wild Griffins v. Zimmermann matchwent to the Griffins, due to a defensive mistake:

West North East SouthZimmermann Orlov Cronier Dikhnova

PassPass Pass 1} Pass1] Pass 1[ Dbl

Pass 2{ 3[ All Pass

1] by West showed spades, of course. EW wisely stopped in3[ which made with an overtrick for +170 to Zimmermannwhen dummy’s queen held after South led a low diamond.

West North East SouthKhven Multon Gulevich Willard

PassPass Pass 1} Pass1{ Pass 1NT Pass2] Pass 3[ Pass

3NT Pass 4[ All Pass

Strong Club and transfer, East showing her maximum plusfit. South led a club to the queen and ace and suddenly, theplay had become interesting. North won the second roundof spades and shifted not to a diamond but to a heart. De-clarer played the king and South took her ace and returnedthe suit. Dummy’s ]J won and a club was led. North wentup with his king and finally led a diamond, but rather thanletting this run to dummy’s queen, declarer went up with

the ace and cashed the }J. When the ten appeared, the }8was the winner on which the last losing diamond wentaway. Just made, +620 and 10 IMPs to the Wild Griffins.In the Green Eyes v. Vriend match, Carla Arnolds had dif-

ferent ideas:West North East South

Bakkeren R. Mihai Arnolds G. Mihai2]

Pass 2NT Dbl 3{Pass Pass 3NT All Pass

When 3{ was passed round to her, she bid where shewanted to play: 3NT. A diamond was led to the ten and herace and she first drove out the [A. North returned a dia-mond to South’s king and South cleared the suit. When inwith the ]A, she duly played her 4th diamond but the de-fence never had the chance to establish any tricks in clubsbefore declarer had nine tricks. A club lead does not helpeither, as long as East is declarer and puts up the jack ifNorth returns a low club at any time. Vriend +600. The Closed Room played in 3[ by West which was just

made on a diamond lead from North. Green Eyes +140 but10 IMPs to Vriend.Our third featured match is between Badger and Russia.

Here, both tables were in 4[ but with mixed results:West North East South

Dubinin Aller ton Ponomareva LesliePass

Pass Pass 1} Pass1{ Pass 1NT Pass2] Pass 3[ Pass4[ All Pass

Strong Club, transfer, maximum fit, diamond lead fromSouth to dummy’s queen and curtains. Russia +620. Bridgereally can be as easy as that.

West North East SouthOsborne Gromov Hinden Gromova

2]Pass 2NT Pass 3{Pass Pass Dbl Pass3[ Pass 4[ All Pass

2] was a two-suiter and 2NT enquired about the minor.When 3{ ran to East, she doubled and thus West becamedeclarer in 4[. North led a heart which South ducked, thenwon the [A at first attempt to continue hearts, get his ruffand return a diamond. Down two. As I just said: bridge canbe as easy as that. Very well defended, Russia +200 and 13IMPs to them.Careful bidding proved quite ineffective on board 8:

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[ K 10 7 4 2] J 5{ J 10 6 2} 8 7

[ A J 8 [ 9 6] A 7 ] K Q 8{ 5 4 3 { Q 8} K 10 6 4 3 } A Q J 9 5 2

[ Q 5 3] 10 9 6 4 3 2{ A K 9 7} –

West North East SouthDubinin Aller ton Ponomareva Leslie

1} Pass 2} Pass3} Pass 3] Pass3[ Pass 4} Pass5} All Pass

EW correctly managed to discover the lack of a diamondstopper and thus ended up in 5}, only to find out that di-amonds were 4-4. There is no justice in this game…onedown, +50 to Badger.


1} Pass 2} Pass2{ Pass 2] Pass3} Pass 3NT All Pass

After the inverted raise and the minimum rebid, East tooka reasonable enough shot at the most likely game to suc-ceed. Right she was: Badger +400 as the defence could (anddid) only take their four diamond tricks. More IMPs for Badger on the next board:

Board 9. Dealer North. E/W Vul.

[ Q J 9 8 7] Q J 4 2{ A K 6 4} –

[ 4 3 [ A K 6 5] A K 10 7 ] 5{ Q 7 { 8} Q J 10 8 5 } K 9 7 6 4 3 2

[ 10 2] 9 8 6 3{ J 10 9 5 3 2} A


1[ Pass 1NTPass 2] Pass 2NTPass 3} Pass 3]

All Pass

When East never showed her 4-7-1-1 distribution, NS gota free run to whatever contract they liked. On the actuallayout, making anything was out of the question for them.Even with diamonds as trumps, seven tricks should be themaximum, whereas EW can make game in clubs. So goingdown just one in 3] looked like a bargain for NS.


1[ 2} Pass2[ Pass 4} Pass4] Pass 4[ Pass5} All Pass

And so it proved when EW had little trouble in reachinggame at the other table, once East simply overcalled 2}after North’s 1[. Badger +600 and 11 IMPs more to them.On the next board, the Wild Griffins registered a game

swing when Zimmermann, defending against 3NT, led the[A rather than a diamond:

Board 10. Dealer East. All Vul.[ K J 10 7 2] A K 9{ 10 8 7} K 6

[ A 8 6 [ 9 5 4 3] 10 5 4 2 ] 7 6 3{ A 9 6 3 2 { K J 4} 3 } Q 8 2

[ Q] Q J 8{ Q 5} A J 10 9 7 5 4

Both tables were in 3NT by South. When Khven, West forthe Wild Griffins, led a diamond, this meant a quick twodown but the [A lead gave away the contract immediatelydue to the block in diamonds. 13 IMPs to the Wild Griffinswho led 29-4 at this stage.The last three boards of the set were more swingy.On the first of them, Zimmermann got his revenge when

he brought home a shaky slam by going for about his onlywinning line, a dummy reversal on a 4-3 fit:

Board 12. Dealer West. N/S Vul.[ J 8 7 6 4] 10 6 5{ 7 5 3} 4 2

[ 10 [ A 5 3 2] A 9 4 3 ] K J 8{ K J 6 2 { A 9 8} A J 9 3 } K 8 7

[ K Q 9] Q 7 2{ Q 10 4} Q 10 6 5

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1{ Pass 1[ Pass2} Pass 2] Pass3] Pass 4{ Pass4] Pass 4[ Pass

4NT Pass 5] Pass6{ All Pass

As the eventual contract was made, it is unfair to even tryand find out at which point the EW bidding went wrong.We should rather give all praise to declarer who, just twoboards after a clear mistake, showed his skills by handlingthis contract superbly. He won the spade lead and immedi-ately ruffed a spade. Next came a heart to the jack andqueen. South returned another spade, ruffed in hand again.Now a club to the king and a diamond to the jack. The {Kwas cashed and dummy was reached with the ]K. The {Adrew all the outstanding trumps, a club to the jack held andon the ]A, the remaining hearts appeared. The slam-goingtrick was thus taken by the ]9 as declarer had shed the 4thclub, and not the 4th heart, on the {A. Zimmermann a huge+920 and a strong candidate for the best played hand ofthe tournament (or the year…). The only objection mightbe that unlikely contracts are excluded from competition.Obviously, they came nowhere near matching this result

in the Closed Room:


1{ Pass 1[ Pass1NT Pass 3NT All Pass

North led a club and declarer managed to make no lessthan 12 tricks, which was quite an achievement in itself butdid not at all do the Russian case any good. 10 IMPs to Zim-mermann.In the Green Eyes v. Vriend match, Carla Arnolds actually

managed to make all 13 tricks in her 3NT when South ledaway from her ]Q. Not that it mattered very much as awheel came off in the Closed Room:

West North East SouthMarina Maas Stegaroiu Vriend

1{ Pass 1[ Pass2} Pass 2] Pass3] Pass 3NT All Pass

South led the [Q, standard from her actual KQ9(xx), andcontinued the king and nine when East held off. Unsureabout the position of the remaining spades, declarer firstwent after the clubs. The jack held but when the suit didnot break, she turned her attention to hearts, playing lowto the jack and South’s queen. South now cashed her mas-ter club and exited in hearts on which North pitched aspade and declarer a diamond. She had lost four tricks al-ready and thus had to choose between the diamond finesse

or the pointed suit-squeeze on North for her contract.When she went for the squeeze and thus played {AK, shewas one down…Vriend +50 and an unexpected 11 IMPsmore to them.The always ominous-looking board 13 created swings in

all our featured matches:

Board 13. Dealer North. All Vul.

[ K 10 9 8 7] 7{ 8 5 4 2} A K 10

[ Q J 4 [ A 6 3 2] J 5 3 ] A K 9 4 2{ Q 10 6 { A J} J 7 3 2 } 8 4

[ 5] Q 10 8 6{ K 9 7 3} Q 9 6 5


1[ 2] PassPass Dbl All Pass

One can feel sympathy for NS but the points went to EW.Just made, Zimmermann +670.


1[ 2] PassPass Dbl Pass 2NT

All Pass

Willard did well not to sit the double. 2NT went one offin peace for a loss of 100 but a gain of 11 IMPs to reducethe deficit to 12 IMPs.In the Green Eyes-Vriend match, the auction started the

same way, of course, but Geta Mihai also did not venture apass:

West North East SouthBakkeren R. Mihai Arnolds G. Mihai

1[ 2] PassPass Dbl Pass 3}

All Pass

Right she was: down two but only -200 to the Green Eyesrather than -670 or more…At the other table, Bogdan Marina was in a different po-

sition:


Pass 1] Pass2] 2[ 4] All Pass

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When North did not open, he heard his partner open 1]so his raise to 2] was automatic. So was the jump to gameby his partner. South did not want to give the show awayby doubling this and thus collected three undertricks foranother +300 or 11 mire IMPs to team Vriend. Their leadhad gone up to 36 at this stage.


1[ 2] PassPass Dbl All Pass

We have already seen this auction before. Ponomarevaeven managed an overtrick, Russia +870.


1[ 2] All Pass

Gromov showed some consequent thinking when he de-cided not to reopen the bidding after the 2] overcall. Notwarned by any double, declarer did not take the precau-tion of leading a low trump to the jack at any time and thuseven went one down, 100 more to Russia for a swing of 14IMPs and regain the lead by 5.On the last board, Zimmermann further tightened the

gap:

Board 14. Dealer East. None Vul.

[ A 10 3] Q 9 8 6 3{ A 5 4} A K

[ Q 8 2 [ 9 7 4] A ] K 10 7 2{ K Q J 7 6 { 9} J 9 7 2 } Q 10 8 5 4

[ K J 6 5] J 5 4{ 10 8 3 2} 6 3


Pass Pass1{ Dbl Pass 1[

Pass 1NT Pass Pass2} Dbl All Pass

North’s double probably was not meant for penalties butwhen South passed, it was clear NS were not quite on thesame wavelength. Still, the contract should gave gone downone as North can lead a low spade at any time, and the de-fence will collect their three tricks in the suit. When he ledthe [A after leading a heart to the ace and winning the {A

at trick two, the contract could no longer be defeated.Zimmermann +180.


Pass Pass1{ 1] Pass PassDbl Redbl 2} 2]

All Pass

A more quiet contract, just made, Zimmermann another+110 and 7 more IMPs to trail by 5 at halftime.In the Green Eyes — Vriend match, Radu Mihai did indeed

find the best defence:West North East South

Bakkeren R. Mihai Arnolds G. MihaiPass Pass

1{ Dbl 1] 1[2} Dbl 4} PassPass Dbl All Pass

4} looks a little overenthusiastic by East, even more so asmaking 4] would have been well beyond the NS reach.North had an obvious double and started off with his twotop trumps and when he duly shifted to a low spade, thecontract was down three. Green Eyes +500.


Pass Pass1{ 1] All Pass

Suddenly, everybody was happy after Anton Maas overcalled1]. Vriend +170 on friendly defence but still 8 IMPs to GreenEyes, who thus reduced their halftime deficit to 28.

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Long ago, way back in the previous century, the Dutch in-vented the Muiderberg two-bids, showing a five card majorwith four or longer in a minor and less then opening val-ues. Muiderberg is a small village in the neighbourhood ofAmsterdam, where Onno Janssens, the inventor of theconvention, used to live. The opening turned out to be avery efficient device, destructive and constructive at thesame time. It soon became extremely popular, first in andlater outside The Netherlands.Here in Poznan, after two days of bridge, your reporter

detected already two fine examples of the Muiderberg. Langer v. Zimmermann

Board 29. Dealer North. All Vul.

[ 10 6] A K 10 8 3{ 10 7} Q 10 6 5

[ K 9 [ A Q 3] 7 2 ] Q 9 5{ K 9 5 2 { A Q 8 6 3} K 8 7 3 2 } 9 4

[ J 8 7 5 4 2] J 6 4{ J 4} A J


Drukier Cronier Husten d’ OvidioPass 1NT* Pass

3NT All Pass* 14+ - 17 HCP

After the spade lead thanks to the favourable layout de-clarer ended up with nine tricks in the thin game.

West North East SouthZimmermann Gwinner Willard Langer

2]* All Pass

*5-10 HCP, 5 card hearts, 4+ cards in a minor

East led a club to the jack and king. West continued thesuit and declarer had an easy road to eight tricks. Hecashed the ]A and king and continued with high clubspitching diamonds from dummy. It resulted in a 12-IMP gainon the board in favour of Langer.One day later, Vriend played Gottlieb in the Swiss A.

Board 14. Dealer East. None Vul.[ 10] K 9 8 2{ A 3} A J 10 9 8 6

[ A K Q 7 5 [ J] J 5 ] A Q 10 6 3{ 6 { J 10 9 5 2} K Q 7 5 2 } 4 3

[ 9 8 6 4 3 2] 7 4{ K Q 8 7 4} –

Closed RoomWest North East South

Anderson Vriend Larsson Maas2{* Pass

2NT* 3} Pass PassDbl Pass 3{ Pass3] All Pass

2{ (Mysterious) Multi, 5 cards allowed

West was not sure about the double and ran away to hersecond suit., +140.


Bertens Fredin Verbeek Michielsen2]* Pass

2[* 3} Pass PassDbl All Pass

2] Muiderberg2[ Constructive, natural, nf

When the smoke cleared EW scored +500 and Vriendcollected 8 IMPs on the board.

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Hans-Herman Gwinner by Elizabeth van Ettinger

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Having been eliminated from the Mixed Teams at the Eu-ropean Open Championships in Poznan I have reluctantlyagreed to continue in the lengthy Mixed Pairs. Towards theend of the fourth session we are handily placed when wemeet a pair from the Netherlands. Only the opponents arevulnerable and I have the following:

[ K Q 4 2] K J { K J 9 4} J 8 6

The attractive young lady on my left, who appears tofavour a minimalist approach when it comes to apparel,opens 2] and as we are sharing the screen she informs methat her bid promises hearts and another suit. Not one tobe distracted I observe that my partner has doubled andthe next player has passed. I have several options, but sim-ply bid 4[. My partner is not finished and advances with 5}which I take to be a cue bid in support of spades. I say 5{and partner goes 5[. Clearly partner does not have the aceof hearts, so I am confident she will have the ace of dia-monds. Attempting to outscore the field I jump to 6NT.

This has been our spirited auction:

West North East South2]* Dbl Pass 4[Pass 5}* Pass 5{Pass 5[ Pass 6NT

All Pass

West leads the ten of clubs and I get the followingdummy:

[ A J 10 7 5] 8 4{ A Q 7} A K 4

[ K Q 4 2] K J{ K J 9 4} J 8 6

I have eleven tricks on top and this lead appears to havehanded me the extra one I am looking for on a plate. Withfair confidence I play low from dummy but East producesthe queen and switches to the ten of hearts. With a sinking

feeling I cover it with the jack, and West takes the queenand cashes the ace. In due course I claim the rest for a dis-appointing -300.

The full deal:[ A J 10 7 5] 8 4{ A Q 7} A K 4

[ 6 3 [ 9 8] A Q 9 6 5 3 ] 10 7 2{ – { 10 8 6 5 3 2} 10 9 7 5 2 } Q 3

[ K Q 4 2] K J{ K J 9 4} J 8 6

Post mortem

Declarer should have realized that the location of thequeen of clubs was irrelevant. Assuming West has the ]AQit is sufficient to win the first clubs and cash five spades, dis-carding a club from hand. Then declarer plays diamonds.This will be the position when the last diamond is played:

[ –] 8 4{ –} K 4

[ – [ –] A Q ] 7 { – { 10 8 } 9 7 } Q

[ –] K J{ J} J

If West discards the queen of hearts declarer simply playsa heart and a club will see dummy’s four of clubs promot-ed to glory.

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Misplay this Hand with Meby Mark Horton

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AGRESJA KONTROLOWANAWe wczorajszej relacji z meczu Connectora umknęło mi

jedno rozdanie… W kontrolce było 600 i 620. Nie zwró-ciłem uwagi, że na przeciwnych liniach!

Rozdawał E Obie po partii

[ K 5] Q 9 3{ 9 7 5 2} A 10 3 2

[ J 6 4 [ Q 3 2] K 10 ] A 4{ 8 6 4 3 { A K J 10} } Q 6 5 4

[ A 10 9 8 7] J 8 7 6 5 2{ Q} 8

West North East SouthSerek Kazmucha

1BA 2}1

pas 2] ktr. 3]pas 4] pas...

1)oba kolory starsze

Nie zważając na założenia, Danuta Kazmucha licytowałabardzo ostro — doceniając walory układu 6-5, zdecydowałasię na wejście, pomimo zaledwie 5 grających punktów.Potem, po wywoławczej kontrze otwierającego, podniosłakiery do trzech — pozostając w zgodzie z prawem lewłącznych, a Cezary Serek, mając niewiele, ale wszystko bez-cenne, zalicytował końcówkę. Przeciwnicy z respektempowstrzymali się od kontry. 4] zostało bez problemu zre-alizowane.Na drugim stole para NS licytowała tylko na wysokości

dwóch i kontraktem końcowym stało się 3BA, wygrane przezNatalię Sakowską i Connector zarobił łącznie 15 imp.

CZYTANIE RĄK

W ćwierćfinałowym meczu Mahaffey — Harding znalazło sięrozdanie jak z mojego cyklu „Czytanie rąk” w „Brydżu”…Jacek Pszczoła rozgrywał 3BA po następującej licytacji

(obie po partii, rozdawał E):

West North East SouthHanlon Pszczoła Harding Seamon-Molson

pas 1}pas 1[ pas 2}pas 2{1 pas 3}pas 3BA pas…

1)sztuczny forsing

Marianne Harding zaatakowała {J:

[ K J 10 7 2] A K 9{ 10 8 7 } K 6

[ Q] Q J 8{ Q 5} A J 10 9 7 5 4

zagraną ze stołu damęW pobił asem i odwrócił szóstką.Z ręki siódemka, król od E. E zagrała teraz czwórkę karo,do której W dołożył dziewiątkę. Po wzięciu na dziesiątkę,Jacek zagrał króla trefl, do którego E dołożyła dójkę, a Wtrójkę. Kolejny trefl, od E ósemka. Co ze stołu?Jak wygądają ręce obrońców? Było oczywiste, że E za-

atakowała z koloru trzykartowego, licząc na longera karo upartnera. Była to przesłanka, że nie ma ona czterechkierów, a jej ręka to coś w rodzaju 4[333 lub 5[332.

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CO SŁYCHAĆ?

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Ponieważ można oczekiwać, że W ma 5{4], dłuższy frag-ment trefli powinien znajdować się w ręce E. Ponadto, Wmając 5 kar, dwa asy i jeszcze damę trefl — 10 PC — mógłby„zmieścić się” w licytacji po otwarciu 1}. Idąc tymi tropa-mi, Jacek zaimpasował damę karo, biorąc 11 lew.

Oto całość rozdania:

[ K J 10 7 2] A K 9{ 10 8 7 } K 6

[ A 8 6 [ 9 5 4 3] 10 5 4 2 ] 7 6 3{ A 9 6 3 2 { K J 4} 3 } Q 8 2

[ Q] Q J 8{ Q 5} A J 10 9 7 5 4

Na drugim stole przy grze utrzymała się para WE:West North East South

Mahaffey McGann Radin Brownpas 1}

pas 1]1 pas 2}ktr. rktr. 2{ paspas ktr. pas...

1)transfer na piki

Ten kontrakt po dość nieszczęśliwym wiście damą karozakończył się wpadką bez jednej i drużyna Mahaffeya zaro-biła 10 imp.O tym, że skuteczne czytanie rąk jest efektywne, ale w

dłuższym dystansie, może świadczyć rozdanie z meczu pół-finałowego:Po licytacji (rozdawał E, NS po partii):

West North East SouthBakkeren Pszczoła Arnolds Seamon-Molson

pas 1}1] 1[ 2] ktr.pas 3[ pas…

E zaatakowała (naturalnie) ]5:

[ A J 10 9 8 3] 10 8 4 2{ 9 2} Q

[ K 7 2] K 7{ J 8 6 4} A J 9 3

na blotkę ze stołu W kładzie damę, po czym gra asa, królai blotkę karo. Przebijasz starannie ósemką (od E dziesiątka)i co dalej? Jacek zagrał damę trefl — król, as, szóstka (zrzut-ki odwrotne). Teraz król kier. W bije asem i gra kiera —ósemka, walet, przebitka… Pozostał problem rozegraniapików. W wszedł na czwórce, pokazał trzy kara, a treflezrzucił na nieparzystą — wygląda, że ma układ 1-4-3-5…Wejście 1] z 3433 na pewno nie byłoby w stylu graczatej klasy. Wobec tego rozgrywający przebił trefla w ręcedziewiątką, i usiłując zapisać się do księgi rekordów mistr-zostw (w kategorii „najniższa lewa atutowa pierwszegookrążenia”) zagrał trójkę pik, a po dołożeniu czwórki przezE zaimpasował siódemką. Rozkład faktycznie był taki, jakJacek sobie wyliczył:

[ A J 10 9 8 3] 10 8 4 2{ 9 2} D

[ Q [ 6 5 4] A Q 6 3 ] J 9 5{ A K 5 { Q 10 7 3} 8 7 6 5 2 } K 10 4

[ K 7 2] K 7{ J 8 6 4} A J 9 3

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ale niestety, singletonem była dama… Bez jednej i 5 impdla teamu Vriend, gdyż na drugim stole NS grali tylko 2[,realizując kontrakt.

PIERWSZY WIST

Eliminacje turnieju par wygrali reprezentanci Polski —Cathy Bałdysz i Piotr Tuszyński. Nie trzeba nikogoprzekonywać, że w turniejach na maksy dobry wist to pod-stawa sukcesów. Oto dwa problemy wistowe z ostatniejsesji:

1.Po licytacji (rozdawał N, NS po partii):

West North East SouthTuszyński

Pas pas pas1}1 pas 1] pas2BA pas 3{ pas3] pas 3BA pas...

1)naturalne albo przygotowawcze

Tuszyński musiał zawistować z ręki: [ K 7 6 2 ]K 6 2 { 32 }A 7 6 5. Jaki byłby Twój wybór?

Piotrek stwierdził (po wytłumaczeniu, że 3] o b i e c y -wało czwórkę) — „jeżeli grają 3BA, pomimo uzgodnieniakierów, to na atak w piki na pewno są przygotowani…” iwyszedł blotką trefl… Popatrzmy na cały rozkład:

[ K 7 6 2] K 6 2{ 3 2} A 7 6 5

[ A 10 4 [ J 9] A Q 7 3 ] J 9 8 4{ A J 7 5 { K Q 8 6 4} K 8 } J 9

[ Q 8 5 3] 10 5{ 10 9} Q 10 4 3 2

Rozgrywający, po wzięciu na króla, przeszedł do stołukarem i zaimpasował kiera — bez jednej i 99% liderów. Poataku w pika byłoby 10 lew i 10%.

2.Po licytacji (rozdawał E, obie po partii):

West North East SouthBałdysz

1} pas1]1 pas 2BA pas3} pas 3[ pas4}2 pas 4BA pas5}3 pas 6[ pas…

1) tekas na piki

2) 5-5 piki z treflami

3) 1 wartość z 5

w co wistujesz z ręką: [ 8 6 5 3 ] 10 8 { K 6 4 } K Q8 5 ?

Cathy Bałdysz wyszła w atu. Popatrzmy na całość rozdania:

[ 9] J 7 6 5 3 2{ J 10 7 5} J 9

[ Q J 10 7 4 [ A K 2] Q 4 ] A K 9{ Q { A 9 8 3 2} A 10 6 4 3 } 7 2

[ 8 6 5 3] 10 8{ K 6 4} K Q 8 5

Rozgrywający wziął w ręce i zagrał as trefl, trefl. Cathyprzejęła waleta figurą i ponownie połączyła atu, kładąc kon-trakt bez jednej. Ten zapis był warty 91%.

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MIXED PAIRS - QUALIFYING(final standings after 7 sessions - subject to confirmation)

Rank Names Percentage1 Cathy BALDYSZ - Piotr TUSZYNSKI 62.452 Michael GROMOELLER - Ria KUERSCHNER 61.733 Renata DANCEWICZ - Tomasz WINCIOREK 59.654 Malgorzata JELENIEWSKA - P. LUTOSTANSKI 58.445 Anne GROMOELLER - Andreas KIRMSE 58.286 Ewa KATER - Tom TOWNSEND 58.267 Doris FISCHER - Bernd SAURER 58.128 Mihaela BALINT - Claudio NUNES 58.119 Andrei ARLOVICH - Sviatlana BADRANKOVA 57.8710 Karel DE RAEYMAEKER - Anna ONISHUK 57.4311 Daniela BIRMAN - David BIRMAN 56.9612 Mircea Sergiu LUPU - Smaranda LUPU 56.2313 Grazyna BREWIAK - Grzegorz NARKIEWICZ 56.2214 Petr BAHNIK - Eva BAHNIKOVA 55.8315 Marta MAJ-RUDNICKA - Jan MOSZYNSKI JR 55.8316 Nadia BEKKOUCHE - Johan UPMARK 55.8117 Andrzej HYCNAR - Renata WAJDOWICZ 55.5918 Jan JANSMA - Aida SALDZIEVA 55.5719 Ewa BANASZKIEWICZ - Frank SVINDAHL 55.5220 V. CARCASSONNE-LABAERE - Alain LABAERE 55.3221 W. KWIATKOWSKI - Ewa MIELCARZEWICZ 55.1022 Catherine CURTIS - Paul FEGARTY 55.0923 Jana JANKOVA - Milan MACURA 54.8324 Bojan AMBROZ - Milojka AMBROZ 54.7925 Eric MAUBERQUEZ - Vanessa REESS 54.7126 Sonata SIMANAITIENE - Albertas TYLA 54.6227 Monika SAUTAUX - Radoslaw SZCZEPANSKI 54.6228 Rafal JUNIK - Jolanta ZIETARA 54.3229 Claus LUND - Maria Dam MORTENSEN 54.1130 Richard RITMEIJER - Magdalena TICHA 54.0031 Heather DHONDY - Jeremy DHONDY 53.9832 Susan HUMPHRIES - Nick JACOB 53.9333 M. WOZNIAK - E. RODZIEWICZ-BIELEWICZ 53.8734 Halina KLUKOWSKA - Maciej TERPILOWSKI 53.7135 Sara CHAPLEAU - Jeff MECKSTROTH 53.6836 Vesa LESKELA - Kirsi VIRTANEN 53.6637 Nathalie FREY - Jerome ROMBAUT 53.6538 Otakar SVOBODA - Pavla SVOBODOVA 53.6339 Cristina GIAMPIETRO - Yuval YENER 53.5540 Ewa Agnieszka GRABOWSKA - V. VAINIKONIS 53.5141 Joseph MACHOTKA - Nese MERCAN 53.4742 Stephen PETERKIN - Sam PUNCH 53.3843 Thomas BESSIS - Veronique BESSIS 53.0444 R. KOWALEWSKI - Katarzyna TYSZKIEWICZ 52.9745 Yury KHIUPPENEN - Tatiana TAZENKOVA 52.9646 Trine BINDERKRANTZ - Thomas VANG-LARSEN52.8747 Emine KONDAKCI SEN - Tezcan SEN 52.8648 Anna KOWALSKA - Marek TYRAN 52.8349 Jean Francois ALLIX - Joanna NEVE 52.8050 Ingrid GROMANN - Rob HELLE 52.77

51 Mehmet Remzi SAKIRLER - Umran SEMERCI 52.7552 David A JACKSON - Teresa RIGNEY 52.7253 Virginia CHEDIAK - Even MORKEN 52.7154 Bengt-Erik EFRAIMSSON - A. ZACK EINARSSON52.6455 Ferda CAKICI - Erdem OZTURK 52.5356 Leszek SZKUDLAREK - Olga ZABULEWICZ 52.4057 Alicja KUPCZYK - Roman WACHOWIAK 52.3658 Linda MOLLE - Marco TER LAARE 52.3259 Tadeusz KACZANOWSKI - Halina SWIECH 52.2760 Mireille FAYAD - Gabriel HARFOUCHE 52.2361 Barbara JAROTA - Jaroslaw ROMANIUK 52.1562 George BILSKI - Mischa SOLAR 52.1063 Tomislav SCEPANOVIC - Nikica SVER 52.0664 Natali SAADA - Yaniv ZACK 52.0465 Mats ALLGOWER - Ella OLSSON 52.0266 Pernilla ANDREASSON - Kjell HOLMGREN 51.9467 Melih Osman SEN - Inci SUT 51.9068 Martin LOEFGREN - Elke WEBER 51.7769 Lotan FISHER - Gilda WASSERMAN 51.7470 Cristina GOLIN - Massimo LANZAROTTI 51.7071 Geoff HAMPSON - Lindsay PEARLMAN 51.6572 Lone MORTENSEN - Jens Otto PEDERSEN 51.5973 Michael ASKGAARD - Christina Lund MADSEN 51.5474 Zeynep ALP - Okay GUR 51.5475 Iwona CZAJKA - Bogdan SZULEJEWSKI 51.5076 Olga DLUGOSZ - Jakub WOJCIESZEK 51.4877 Anita FOLKMANE - Gatis GAIGALS 51.2978 Per-Arne KARLSSON - Anna ROOS KARLSSON 51.2979 Hartmut KONDOCH - Maria WUERMSEER 51.2980 Francoise VANHOUTTE - P. VANHOUTTE 51.2481 Ron PACHTMAN - Rozalia RONEN 51.1682 M. KWIECINSKA-WILK - Maciej STEFANIUK 51.0983 Petro KARLYKOV - Marina TETYUSHEVA 51.0384 Todor KOSTADINOV - Cvetanka NALBATSKA 51.0285 David GOLD - Susanna GROSS 51.0286 Bogumila JAKUBOWSKA - Piotr KORECKI 50.9587 Michael SCHNEIDER - Gisela SMYKALLA 50.9088 Ismail KANDEMIR - Sevil NUHOGLU 50.8989 Stefan GEORGIEV - Svetla NENOVA 50.8890 Danielle AVON - Jean-Michel VOLDOIRE 50.8391 Arunas JANKAUSKAS - Jurgita ROTOMSKIENE 50.7892 Monica AGHEMO - Andrea BURATTI 50.7393 Nina ANIDJAR - Diego BRENNER 50.6794 Michal KOPECKY - Jeanette REITZER 50.6395 Loek FRESEN - Waltraud VOGT 50.5996 Severine DISSARD - Gert Jan PAULISSEN 50.5597 Larysa KUZNIATSOVA - Aleh TIMAKHOVICH 50.5298 Mehves PISAK - M.Gokhan YILMAZ 50.5299 Egil HOMME - Marianne HOMME 50.52100 Krister AHLESVED - Catharina FORSBERG 50.48101 Dorota TOKAJ-WOJTCZUK - R. WOJTCZUK 50.43

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102 Ewa SOBOLEWSKA - Marek SZYMANOWSKI 50.41103 Eva CAPLAN - William FRISBY 50.38104 Cezary KRZEMINSKI - Marta OSTROWSKA 50.36105 Tine DOBBELS - Rutger VAN MECHELEN 50.31106 B. DRINOVEC DRNOVSEK - Marjan ZADEL 50.29107 Leyla ATALIK - Selcuk ATALIK 50.28108 Wlodzimierz BUZE - Aneta JARMOCIK 50.22109 Vasil BATOV - Marina PILIPOVIC 50.21110 Dariusz MORAWSKI - Irmeli SALONEN 50.15111 Anne-Marie COLOMBARO - Jean-Yves DANIC 50.03112 Margot ALFHEIM - Magne EIDE 49.99113 Jens Ove HENNEBERG - Marlene KIRSTAN 49.99114 Zdenek LASTOVICKA - Vera SCHULZOVA 49.99115 Jacek KLIMCZAK - Danuta KRUPNIK 49.96116 Paolo CLAIR - Carla PAGNINI-ARSLAN 49.91117 Julide YARDIMCI - Hakan PEYRET 49.84118 Lubomir IGNATOV - Pavlina MINEVA 49.79119 Tuna ALUF - Namik KOKTEN 49.69120 Piotr ILCZUK - Paulina KLIMENTOWSKA 49.66121 Sandra HAVLICEK - Miro TESLA 49.54122 Krzysztof LATOSZEWSKI - Anna MANDECKA 49.48123 Luca MARIETTI - Laura Cecilia PORRO 49.44124 Dan BYLUND - Helena STROMBERG 49.43125 Ilona BOBKO - Dariusz ZEMBRZUSKI 49.27126 Marek DRUKIER - Uschi HUSTEN 49.25127 Lukasz BREDE - Malgorzata ROZMAN 49.20128 Hanna KOWALSKA - Andrzej MAJCHER 49.17129 Patsy MEEHAN - Marcin RUDZINSKI 49.03130 Bodil Nyheim OIGARDEN - S. F. SIMONSEN 48.98131 Malgorzata SAWICKA - Jurek CZYZOWICZ 48.85132 Fulvio FANTONI - Iolanda RIOLO 48.77133 Sylwester MLYNARCZUK - Danuta ZABICKA 48.74134 David LIGGAT - Elizabeth (Liz) McGOWAN 48.61135 John PHELAN - Lucy PHELAN 48.56136 Brigitte AUBONNET - Christophe CARDE 48.47137 Joan KENNY - Marshall LEWIS 48.33138 Marta JANECZEK - Aleksander KASPRZAK 48.33139 Anna BUCZEK - Waldemar SIUDA 48.28140 Claudia LUESSMANN - Ingo LUESSMANN 48.10141 Bjorn FALLENIUS - Lynn TARNOPOL 48.08142 Paul LAMFORD - Stefanie ROHAN 48.02143 Barbara KAPICA - Dariusz KOZLOWSKI 48.01144 Maureen HANNAH - Jimmy LEDGER 47.88145 Hans-Herman GWINNER - Darina LANGER 47.85146 Lena LESZCZYNSKA - Witold TOMASZEK 47.79147 Teresa OLCZYK - Lechoslaw PIOTROWSKI 47.75148 Victor ARONOV - Ahu ZOBU 47.73149 Jane Norgren HANSEN - Lars Sogaard HANSEN 47.66150 Jacek BALCEROWSKI - Marta BYSTRON 47.64151 Netsy SAYER - Zahari ZAHARIEV 47.59152 Anna SEGALOV - Zbigniew STACHNIUK 47.58153 Agneta KAREKE - Torbjorn KAREKE 47.57154 Agata KOWAL - Jakub KOWAL 47.36155 Victor MILMAN - Nadia STELMASHENKO 47.34

156 Stanislaw JANIK - Zofia MIKOLAJCZYK 47.34157 Marco CATELLANI - Valeria BIANCHI 47.32158 Jorunn FENESS - Kjell Otto KOPSTAD 47.07159 Gavin BAILEY - Kirsten BAILEY 47.00160 Herold KRAAKENES - Jonill STOROY 46.95161 Iman CHAMMAA - Krzysztof MARTENS 46.95162 Amit CHAUDHURI - Eva ENGSTROM 46.86163 Jolanta JACOSZEK - Przemyslaw MALISZEWSKI 46.83164 Alexander BUDAEV - Svetlana KOVTUN 46.68165 Barbara BARAGA - Bogdan RASULA 46.65166 Pavel KLEBANOVICH - Elena SHOKHAN 46.62167 Owen CAMP - Anisia SHAMI 46.46168 Anja KAGELING - Rien VERBEEK 46.44169 Jacek SIKORA - Marta SIKORA 46.35170 Jana ERDEOVA - Jiri MASEK 46.16171 Anna NOVOTNA - Josef NOVOTNY 45.99172 Giovanni LUCCHESI - Raffaella MICHELOTTI 45.98173 Fiona McQUAKER - Iain SIME 45.73174 Michal NOSATZKI - Patrick SAADA 45.70175 Joyce SKELTON - Mike THEELKE 45.68176 Liv Marit GRUDE - Lars Arthur JOHANSEN 45.68177 Vadim KHOLOMEEV - Tatiana NOKHAEVA 45.41178 Laurence DUC - Stephan MAGNUSSON 45.39179 Rita GHOSN - Maan HACHEM 45.35180 Walter HOEGER - Petra von MALCHUS 45.34181 Stephanie JACOB - Tom JACOB 45.33182 Andrzej REKOSIAK - Lidia WILCZAK 45.21183 Birgit FAEHR - Wolf STAHL 45.17184 Boleslaw OSTROWSKI - Regina ZIEBICKA 45.02185 Anna KREGLEWSKA-WNUK - Tomasz WNUK 45.00186 Jolanta SLAWENTA - Jozef SLAWENTA 45.00187 Alicja KRZEMINSKA - Pawel KRZEMINSKI 44.94188 Ben HANDLEY-PRITCHARD - Lara RUSO 44.75189 Maria WHELAN - Brian KEABLE 44.69190 Kitty O SHEA - Joe WALSH 44.63191 Aleksandra JESENICNIK - Tolja ORAC 44.50192 Egidijus PETRYLA - Nele PETRYLIENE 44.45193 Geir ENGEBRETSEN - Tove HAUGEN 44.39194 Sue LANE - Paul TAPSTER 43.86195 Andrzej KUSION - Magdalena LEPIARCZYK 43.82196 Pawel GALAZKA - Joanna PRZYTYCKA 43.58197 Dick RUTTER - Jane RUTTER 43.52198 Hilde LARSEN - Trygve UNDEM 43.48199 Catherine BEARPARK - Steve BEARPARK 43.42200 Natalia LEPESHKEVICH - Dzmitry YASKEVICH 43.05201 Malgorzata AUGUSTYN - Adam PESZKE 43.02202 Jill KULCHYCKY - Brendan J O BRIEN 42.90203 Lisbeth GLAERUM - Sven Olai HOYLAND 42.65204 Neil ROSEN - Catherine SEALE 41.96205 Ronnie BARR - Ilan HERBST 41.70206 Molly PSILOU - Nikos THEOTOKIS 38.93207 Eva NETSMAN - Per NETSMAN 38.73208 Rita CHANDRA - Gerardo MALAZDREWICZ 37.16

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MIXED PAIRS - SEMI-FINAL A(standings after 2 sessions - subject to confirmation)

Rank Names Percentage1 A KOWALSKI - E MISZEWSKA 69.812 M CANONNE - P SUSSEL 65.843 R RITMEIJER - M TICHA 65.394 I KHAZANOV - M LEBEDEVA 62.755 B EFRAIMSSON - A ZACK EINARSSON 62.376 D FISCHER - B SAURER 62.267 T BINDERKRANTZ - T VANG-LARSEN 61.958 N SAADA - Y ZACK 61.469 J DE BOTTON - A MALINOWSKI 59.9810 A IVANOV - S IVANOVA 59.4111 T SCEPANOVIC - N SVER 57.9712 M EGGELING - T GOTARD 57.3713 T BESSIS - V BESSIS 57.0614 D LU - Y WANG 56.7515 A SARNIAK - L SZTYRAK 56.1216 J F ALLIX - J NEVE 55.7317 E A GRABOWSKA - V VAINIKONIS 55.6818 S AUKEN - N BOCCHI 55.5719 L MOLLE - M TER LAARE 55.3320 H KLUKOWSKA - M TERPILOWSKI 55.2421 M BALINT - C NUNES 55.2222 G HELNESS - T HELNESS 54.9123 E BANASZKIEWICZ - F SVINDAHL 54.8124 P ERKKILA - K KOISTINEN 54.7425 G BUSSE - P BUSSE 54.5526 E MAUBERQUEZ - V REESS 54.4427 M S LUPU - S LUPU 54.0928 S PENFOLD - B SENIOR 53.9929 S SIMANAITIENE - A TYLA 53.8130 R HAUGE - A MALINOWSKI 53.7531 K DUFRAT - M NOWOSADZKI 53.6532 M SAUTAUX - R SZCZEPANSKI 53.6333 N SANDQVIST - N SENIOR 53.5534 M CICHOCKI - D HOCHEKER 53.5035 V CARCASSONNE-LABAERE - A LABAERE 53.4236 Y KHIUPPENEN - T TAZENKOVA 53.4137 G HELGEMO - D B POPOVA 53.1738 G HAMPSON - L PEARLMAN 53.1439 D BIRMAN - D BIRMAN 53.1340 J SMEDEREVAC - S WERNLE 53.0441 M LOEFGREN - E WEBER 52.9342 C BALDYSZ - P TUSZYNSKI 52.8143 M ROMANOVSKA - K RUBINS 52.7744 L FISHER - G WASSERMAN 52.6445 S SUN - R YAN 52.4846 L SZKUDLAREK - O ZABULEWICZ 52.3047 D ANGEBRANDT - B UTNER 52.2448 B GOTARD - T GOTARD 52.1449 C GIAMPIETRO - Y YENER 52.0850 J JANKOVA - M MACURA 51.9851 P FREDIN - M MICHIELSEN 51.8252 H DHONDY - J DHONDY 51.7353 V CHEDIAK - E MORKEN 51.7254 A BABSCH - U SCHRECKENBERGER 51.6955 L GOLDBERG - U GOLDBERG 51.5956 D KAZMUCHA - C SEREK 51.4757 K DE RAEYMAEKER - A ONISHUK 51.4158 O SVOBODA - P SVOBODOVA 51.0159 P ANDERSSON - A LARSSON 50.8160 S PETERKIN - S PUNCH 50.6961 A KOWALSKA - M TYRAN 50.5162 H KHANDELWAL - R KHANDELWAL 50.32

63 N FREY - J ROMBAUT 50.3064 C GOLIN - M LANZAROTTI 50.2965 C CURTIS - P FEGARTY 50.2366 T KACZANOWSKI - H SWIECH 50.2267 D A JACKSON - T RIGNEY 50.1168 A HYCNAR - R WAJDOWICZ 50.0269 B BROGELAND - T A BROGELAND 50.0070 E KLIDZEJA - D PROKHOROV 49.6971 B JAROTA - J ROMANIUK 49.6172 A ELSINEN - T ELSINEN 48.8373 L MORTENSEN - J O PEDERSEN 48.8174 J MACHOTKA - N MERCAN 48.6675 A KUPCZYK - R WACHOWIAK 48.3476 D FORGE - V VENTOS 48.3477 R JUNIK - J ZIETARA 48.3078 R BOEDDEKER - F ZARKESCH 48.2679 M WOZNIAK - E RODZIEWICZ-BIELEWICZ 47.9880 N BEKKOUCHE - J UPMARK 47.9181 C LUND - M D MORTENSEN 47.6182 J ROMANOWSKI - M ROSSARD 47.3983 P LEITNER - E PICHLER 47.1084 J TACZEWSKA - M TACZEWSKI 46.9985 P B NEHMERT - M YUEN 46.6786 M JELENIEWSKA - P LUTOSTANSKI 46.6487 M O SEN - I SUT 46.2588 F CAKICI - E OZTURK 46.0289 E KONDAKCI SEN - T SEN 45.8390 A K FUGLESTAD - E SAELENSMINDE 45.6891 G CAPPELLER - J CAPPELLER 45.5992 E KATER - T TOWNSEND 45.4893 C VECHIATTO - B ENGEL 45.2794 G BILSKI - M SOLAR 45.1495 M FAYAD - G HARFOUCHE 45.1096 W KWIATKOWSKI - E MIELCARZEWICZ 44.5497 G BREWIAK - G NARKIEWICZ 44.5398 A MADALA - C RIMSTEDT 44.4599 P BAHNIK - E BAHNIKOVA 44.41100 F AYDOGDU - S AKIN 44.21101 G GOTTLIEB - B KUZSELKA 44.10102 H BERGER - R HANSEN 43.99103 M R SAKIRLER - U SEMERCI 43.74104 S CHAPLEAU - J MECKSTROTH 43.37105 R KOWALEWSKI - K TYSZKIEWICZ 43.35106 V LESKELA - K VIRTANEN 43.32107 M ALLGOWER - E OLSSON 43.19108 D GAVIARD - B PAYEN 43.09109 M MAJ-RUDNICKA - J MOSZYNSKI JR 43.06110 J JANSMA - A SALDZIEVA 42.97111 S HUMPHRIES - N JACOB 42.92112 G JANKUNAITE - G SARKANAS 41.62113 B CALLAGHAN - C DUCKWORTH 41.56114 S COPE - S STOCKDALE 41.54115 I GROMANN - R HELLE 41.28116 W FRUKACZ - G NASTASE 41.21117 M GROMOELLER - R KUERSCHNER 40.72118 P BUTRYN - N SAKOWSKA 40.23119 A ARLOVICH - S BADRANKOVA 39.99120 R DANCEWICZ - T WINCIOREK 37.86121 A GROMOELLER - A KIRMSE 37.72122 P ANDREASSON - K HOLMGREN 37.34123 B ATALAY - A WITKOWSKI 35.47124 B AMBROZ - M AMBROZ 34.45

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Rank Names Percentage1 E CAPLAN - W FRISBY 66.492 B KAPICA - D KOZLOWSKI 63.323 J CZYZOWICZ - M SAWICKA 62.254 L BREDE - M ROZMAN 62.155 F FANTONI - I RIOLO 61.756 I CZAJKA - B SZULEJEWSKI 61.357 J SKELTON - M THEELKE 61.168 B FALLENIUS - L TARNOPOL 60.609 N ROSEN - C SEALE 60.3610 L FRESEN - W VOGT 60.1511 M NOSATZKI - P SAADA 59.6812 L GLAERUM - S O HOYLAND 59.6313 A KREGLEWSKA-WNUK - T WNUK 59.2914 R PACHTMAN - R RONEN 58.4715 H KOWALSKA - A MAJCHER 58.3716 B BARAGA - B RASULA 58.3217 M KWIECINSKA-WILK - M STEFANIUK 58.2918 C LUESSMANN - I LUESSMANN 58.1619 M JANECZEK - A KASPRZAK 57.9220 S JANIK - Z MIKOLAJCZYK 57.6821 L M GRUDE - L A JOHANSEN 57.6622 R BARR - I HERBST 57.2023 P KARLSSON - A ROOS KARLSSON 57.2024 M PISAK - M YILMAZ 57.1125 H KONDOCH - M WUERMSEER 56.9226 E SOBOLEWSKA - M SZYMANOWSKI 56.7527 A COLOMBARO - J DANIC 56.6828 V BATOV - M PILIPOVIC 56.4429 A NOVOTNA - J NOVOTNY 56.2530 F VANHOUTTE - P VANHOUTTE 56.1131 P MEEHAN - M RUDZINSKI 55.7132 B N OIGARDEN - S F SIMONSEN 55.6733 E PETRYLA - N PETRYLIENE 55.4934 D AVON - J VOLDOIRE 55.2435 W BUZE - A JARMOCIK 55.2036 N SAYER - Z ZAHARIEV 54.7637 D GOLD - S GROSS 54.6838 J YARDIMCI - H PEYRET 54.5539 J JACOSZEK - P MALISZEWSKI 54.5340 L MARIETTI - L C PORRO 54.4441 I CHAMMAA - K MARTENS 54.3242 V KHOLOMEEV - T NOKHAEVA 54.2443 J FENESS - K O KOPSTAD 54.1044 J KENNY - M LEWIS 54.0645 J O HENNEBERG - M KIRSTAN 53.6846 M KOPECKY - J REITZER 53.6447 A KUSION - M LEPIARCZYK 53.6248 S HAVLICEK - M TESLA 53.6149 J ERDEOVA - J MASEK 53.3550 L DUC - S MAGNUSSON 53.2251 I BOBKO - D ZEMBRZUSKI 53.2252 P KARLYKOV - M TETYUSHEVA 52.8853 M ASKGAARD - C L MADSEN 52.5954 A JANKAUSKAS - J ROTOMSKIENE 52.3555 R GHOSN - M HACHEM 51.9556 A KAREKE - T KAREKE 51.9257 T ALUF - N KOKTEN 51.7458 H LARSEN - T UNDEM 51.6259 W HOEGER - P v MALCHUS 51.4360 O DLUGOSZ - J WOJCIESZEK 51.1961 D BYLUND - H STROMBERG 51.1662 J N HANSEN - L S HANSEN 51.0463 B JAKUBOWSKA - P KORECKI 50.7164 P KLEBANOVICH - E SHOKHAN 50.6765 M AUGUSTYN - A PESZKE 50.6666 D RUTTER - J RUTTER 50.4867 M CATELLANI - V BIANCHI 50.46

68 D MORAWSKI - I SALONEN 50.4269 C BEARPARK - S BEARPARK 50.2270 B DRINOVEC DRNOVSEK - M ZADEL 50.2071 J SLAWENTA - J SLAWENTA 50.1572 V MILMAN - N STELMASHENKO 50.1373 L ATALIK - S ATALIK 50.1174 J PHELAN - L PHELAN 50.0975 L IGNATOV - P MINEVA 49.9176 I KANDEMIR - S NUHOGLU 49.5377 C KRZEMINSKI - M OSTROWSKA 49.5178 K O SHEA - J WALSH 49.2379 S MLYNARCZUK - D ZABICKA 49.1380 H GWINNER - D LANGER 49.0381 K LATOSZEWSKI - A MANDECKA 48.6982 B HANDLEY-PRITCHARD - L RUSO 48.4883 L KUZNIATSOVA - A TIMAKHOVICH 48.3784 A KOWAL - J KOWAL 47.8985 S JACOB - T JACOB 47.6886 A FOLKMANE - G GAIGALS 47.6687 M DRUKIER - U HUSTEN 47.4288 B OSTROWSKI - R ZIEBICKA 47.2589 D TOKAJ-WOJTCZUK - R WOJTCZUK 47.1490 N LEPESHKEVICH - D YASKEVICH 46.8091 Z LASTOVICKA - V SCHULZOVA 46.7092 A JESENICNIK - T ORAC 46.6993 P LAMFORD - S ROHAN 46.4794 E NETSMAN - P NETSMAN 46.4295 K AHLESVED - C FORSBERG 46.2596 J KLIMCZAK - D KRUPNIK 45.9597 M PSILOU - N THEOTOKIS 45.5998 F McQUAKER - I SIME 45.4199 M SCHNEIDER - G SMYKALLA 45.34100 M WHELAN - B KEABLE 45.08101 E HOMME - M HOMME 44.78102 B AUBONNET - C CARDE 44.62103 V ARONOV - A ZOBU 44.51104 T DOBBELS - R VAN MECHELEN 44.07105 D LIGGAT - E ( McGOWAN 43.99106 L LESZCZYNSKA - W TOMASZEK 43.88107 O CAMP - A SHAMI 43.62108 B FAEHR - W STAHL 43.13109 P ILCZUK - P KLIMENTOWSKA 43.07110 N ANIDJAR - D BRENNER 42.87111 R CHANDRA - G MALAZDREWICZ 42.81112 Z ALP - O GUR 42.48113 S GEORGIEV - S NENOVA 42.22114 A BUDAEV - S KOVTUN 42.19115 A SEGALOV - Z STACHNIUK 41.80116 P CLAIR - C PAGNINI-ARSLAN 41.67117 S LANE - P TAPSTER 41.53118 T KOSTADINOV - C NALBATSKA 40.88119 H KRAAKENES - J STOROY 40.80120 A KRZEMINSKA - P KRZEMINSKI 40.66121 M AGHEMO - A BURATTI 40.17122 G ENGEBRETSEN - T HAUGEN 39.25123 J KULCHYCKY - B J O BRIEN 38.91124 S DISSARD - G J PAULISSEN 38.74125 P GALAZKA - J PRZYTYCKA 38.72126 A BUCZEK - W SIUDA 38.69127 M HANNAH - J LEDGER 38.55128 J SIKORA - M SIKORA 38.50129 M ALFHEIM - M EIDE 38.47130 T OLCZYK - L PIOTROWSKI 38.29131 J BALCEROWSKI - M BYSTRON 37.93132 G LUCCHESI - R MICHELOTTI 36.10133 A REKOSIAK - L WILCZAK 33.50134 A CHAUDHURI - E ENGSTROM 30.76

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